Recipe: Perfect Sakura Shrimp Furikake (perfect for onigiri)

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Sakura Shrimp Furikake (perfect for onigiri). Great recipe for Sakura Shrimp Furikake (perfect for onigiri). Stir fry in sesame oil until fragrant and use as furikake. You can use sakura shrimp, ami shrimp, or baby shrimp to make this furikake.

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Here are two recipes with a little kick to them that can be made in just a few minutes from frozen; both are perfect for bento.

The furikake adds flavor and a nice.

You can have Sakura Shrimp Furikake (perfect for onigiri) using 4 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Sakura Shrimp Furikake (perfect for onigiri)

  1. You need of Sakura shrimp or baby shrimp.

  2. It’s of Sesame oil.

  3. You need of Soy sauce.

  4. You need of Cooked rice (warm).

It is boundless with a variety of traditional, seasonal, modern, and regional dishes.

Japanese cuisine is based on the 'rules of five' that emphasize variety and balance.

Most of these furikake are "Mazekomi" ("mix-in") and are designed especially for mixing into rice for delicious and easy onigiri, or the rice for your bento lunchbox.

Common furikake blends include nori seaweed and egg, ume (pickled plum), shiso, shrimp, and dried fish.

Sakura Shrimp Furikake (perfect for onigiri) step by step

  1. 20 g (= 1 cup) of sakura shrimp (or baby shrimp) (1/2 cup if using baby shrimp).

  2. Heat the sesame oil in a frying pan and add the shrimp from Step 1. When they start to brown, add the soy sauce and stir fry..

  3. When the color looks like this and it becomes very fragrant, its done..

  4. Perfect for onigiri..

  5. Rice topped with this furikake is so delicious..

  6. Also good for making tenkasu + baby shrimp (or sakura shrimp) onigiri..

Yaki-Onigiri Yaki-onigiri is a type of rice ball cooked over an open flame on a wire grill until the exterior becomes crispy, then coated in sauce.

Also known as o-musubi or nigirimeshi, onigiri are Japanese rice ball snacks made from cooked or steamed rice, seasonings (and sometimes tasty hidden fillings), wrapped a nori seaweed wrapper.

In Japan, they're either made at home in the morning or purchased from a nearby kombini (convenience store), then taken to work or school as a tasty snack or quick lunch.

If you're eating the onigiri right away, dig in!

If you're packing them for later.